Well, that and our Milk Cartel, responsible for 240% tariffs on foreign milk products, at least according to Yukon News here:
Yes, I have friends who are local (Ontario, not the Yukon) dairy farmers and the milk police are a very real thing.
I'm told they will literally come to your farm and destroy your equipment on site like mafia thugs if you're caught producing or selling outside of quota. If that's not racketeering, I don't know what is.
Canadian farmers overall are forced to dump billions of liters of milk a year if their production exceeds their quota from the Dairy cartel.
âFor AGI to get built [in the United States], to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, to create a new industry centred hereâwe wouldnât be able to do this without you,"
Sorry to have to abandon this stimulating conversation but I'm off to my weekly lunch with my Marxist uni friends. We'll be sure to eat and drink only from the MAGA certified, lots of gluten, produced by coal fired menu. Heil Elon!
You joke around but clearly don't know where this is coming from. Hate on Trump all you like, but he's just doing the same thing that's been threatening Canada-US trade relations vis-a-vis our NATO obligation (or failure to meet it, more precisely), since the early 1970s.
Retired Colonel David Redman of the Canadian Armed Forces, explains how we got here:
Off topic but it's my topic. My friends and I decided that the response to the end of DEI policy is just to fire all the people who voted for Trump. No diversity, all non-Trumpers.
That was easy.
After 4 glasses of wine, things really are starting to look up.
He might be a narcissist although he is quite accomplished at some things and may just be boastful and expressing the perceived privilege of the very rich. Trump, on the other hand, is definitely both a narcissist and a sociopath.
What's wrong with that? Why is it only Western democracies that are expected to conform to multiculturalism?
In Canada, where multiculturalism was reaffirimed into law since 1988 but generally in policy since 1971 under the first Trudeau Crime Minister, Pierre, multiculturalism as official public policy has failed to unify anything you might call a "Canadian" people. In fact, our current Crime Minister has gone so far as to declare that
There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.... There are shared valuesâopenness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state.
The irony of this statement is that those shared values that may exist in his very posh bubble may appear to exist, as he is careful to surround himself only with his personal squad of cheerleaders (he made sure his friends at his wedding party were all Cabinet Ministers) but the fact is that the divisiveness in Canada has never been so great, with hate crimes against Jewish people up 251% in Canada, as disclosed just yesterday by Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.
We have a Jihadist extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir literally planning their second annual anti-Western democracy conference, first in Mississauga, Ontario until the mayor canceled the venue license, now in far-left Hamilton, Ontario (mayor Andrea Horwath formerly socialist NDP Party Leader of Ontario), in an undisclosed location after Mayor Carolyn Parrish forced their movement more underground. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/hizb-ut-tahrir-canada-islamic-conference-hamilton-ontario
For non Canadians reading this, National Post is one of Canada's mainstream newspapers whose bias or hyperbole is minimal similar with other, general interest establishment newspapers. In other words, not a National Enquirer tabloid paper, although more right leaning than some of our other establishment papers such as the Toronto Star. I only state this given the potentially sensitive to some subject matter concerning tensions right now in the Middle East.
I personally have no horse in this race although I will not stand by and tolerate calls for "Death to Canada" or any of the very offensive and virulent slogans I will not repeat here, calling for harm and much worse to Jewish people being uttered on Canadian streets. This was NOT the spirit of Multiculturalism as official policy under the Progressive Conservative Mulroney Government of the 1980s, an Act passed in 1988 that made Canada the world's first country to enshrine multiculturalism as law.
And in fact, as author Neil Bisoondath in his 1994 book Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada, multiculturalism as implemented in 1988 did nothing to unite a Canadian people from the world's various ethnicities, and in fact had the opposite effect, furthering cultural stereotypes and focusing on the importance of there as opposed to here, reducing individual voices and instead moving folks closer to ethnic checkboxes of belongingness to the former homeland as opposed to Canada.
In other words, in Bisoondath's critique, various cultures become celebrated for little more than mom and pop restaurants or particular cultural festivals that go out of the way to highlight cultural differences as stereotype and not sameness of a Canadian people, in ways that don't express or reflect the everyday experiences of we in Canada who do generally the same things every day regardless of where our ancestors called home. It is also worth nothing that the 1988 rendition, still law today, was intended in some way not to celebrate the various ancestral cultures that make up Canada's mosaic of people; rather, it was a shrewd attempt at least in part, by the governing Party of the day to reduce the distinct status of the Quebecois in Canada to just another ethnic origin. Had that angle worked, we would have seen a reduction in the Federally imposed wealth transfer payments from the have to the have-not provinces, most notably in this case between oil rich Alberta and Quebec, where Quebec has consistently received a greater amount of money in these transfers than any other province or territory. In fact, there is a separatist movement in Alberta today that specifically lists this amongst its grievances.
In my opinion, Canada's multiculturalism is just a bad business deal. It's said in business that a deal is only a good deal if both parties in an exchange feel as though they gave something up. Canada's Multiculturalism Act does not address this disparity. The tolerance of Canadians who may be Indigenous or who may have roots in Canada for many generations, are required by law to tolerate cultural practices and accommodate language and other demands particular to some other country on the one hand; but on the other hand, nothing in the way of conformity beyond and sometimes even against our Criminal Code is expected and accommodations are increasingly demanded of the government. Any expectation of conformity to even the law is immediately shouted down as "racist" and law enforcement is more unilaterally imposed against the "old stock" Canadians than the new.
I think that, as Argentinian President Javier Milei said at the WEF this week, that classic liberal values have been co-opted in a paradigm shift that allowed political opportunists to distort the pillars of Western liberal democracies, in very destructive and increasingly divisive ways, where a conformity to Wokeism is the tool used to demand conformity in very real ways by people who weren't duly elected on those policies and in many if not most cases, are carrying out an agenda of people who want to control our societies from inaccessible global board rooms such as the WEF.
Whether we're talking about radical "net zero" carbon emissions or the imposition of carbon pricing on Western societies, the imposition of mass immigration to places like Canada that far exceeds our carrying capacity by way of our social framework, or the criticism by the political left of Musk no matter what he does, as Milei says, it's "all heads of the same beast".
That's why we hear this in public discourse:
and this:
since the political left by categorizing people according to degrees of perceived inequity of outcome, can not allow a social indiscretion such as Musk's very awkward display of excitement past the gate and into the fold of those who struggle with ASD. It can't be allowed because, as I said in an earlier post, Electric Car Jesus votes Republican, is a Capitalist, is male and he's extremely wealthy. Woke Card denied.
My post was a lot funnier when it included the meme that prompted it but it didn't make it past the mods so I had to make do.
I'm no stranger to the spectrum and I don't feel bad about poking fun at Elon if he wants to act like a doofus. He is fortunate to be moderately intelligent and be blessed/cursed with the ability to hyper focus on things that make him money. It doesn't excuse the fact that he didn't make the effort to develop some sort of filter before he got too rich to need one. If I had his money, it would be the equivalent of not behaving in this forum and just buying Arduino so I could say whatever I pleased.
This was intended as a compliment as I honestly don't believe he fits the definition of a narcissist. Since he's put down roots in my town, I get the chance to observe him a little more closely. His "compound" out on the lake where he's stashed all the children and the baby mamas that will put up with it is interesting, to say the least.
So a card carrying conservative like myself can't believe that Elon could work on his behavior a little? I don't think being a male Republican Capitalist with a lot of money means he can't have a little empathy for those less fortunate than him. The MAMA crowd don't represent conservative values, they just want to eliminate the competition.
Here's a plan. Instead of a DOGE, Trump can hire someone to figure out how to assimilate the tens of millions of undocumented migrants into their new home. Deport or jail the rapists, terrorists and murderers that he's using to scare the little children in the MAMA movement and spend the billions of dollars necessary to employ, educate, heal and house the rest.
Make America Mediocre Again? That's a wild guess on my part, never saw this acronym used before.
Is this like a "Company Town" concept, sort of like a military suburb? I have a friend who just retired from the US Army who lives in something like that in New Mexico. I don't know if he's planning on moving or what the rules are for retired veterans.
Sure you can think that. I wonder if he already does, who knows what coaching or other resources are available to someone with his resources. Maybe he has Tony Robbins on speed dial.
It's your tax dollar. If you think people who start out in America by breaking the law are a welcome addition, well, I'm Canadian so my opinion on that as it pertains to America is irrelevant. I wonder if you believe that housing should be free for everyone in the United States, and if so, how large and of what type of construction do you recommend?
No, it's more analogous to the Branch Davidians that had the infamous standoff with BATF in Waco.
I don't think crossing the border illegally when the US hasn't created a working mechanism to handle the large number of migrants is that big a crime.
That's an absurd suggestion if that's what you got from my proposal that migrants be afforded basic human needs while they wait for the immigration process to complete.
